BILL ANALYSIS

 

 

                                                                                                                                             H.B. 720

                                                                                                                                         By: Berman

                                                                                                                      Economic Development

                                                                                                       Committee Report (Unamended)

 

 

 

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

 

Veterans who currently serve on the Workforce Development Board as the designated veteran, as required by current statute, have no requirements to actually represent veterans and may not even be aware that they are the designated veteran on the Board. This Act would be changed to further define what the National Government, through the Workforce Development Act, already says; that a veteran on the Workforce  Development Board actually serves as a representative to their fellow veterans.  HB 720 further defines that a veteran on the Workforce Development Board must be an actual representative for veterans and not just be on the Board and happen to be a veteran.

 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

 

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. 

 

ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 2308.256 (h), Government Code, by adding subdivision (2), which states that a veteran on the Workforce Development Board must serve as a representative for veterans interests in the workforce development area.

 

SECTION 2. States that if this Act conflicts with federal law then this Act is void.

 

SECTION 3.  Provides the effective date of this Act.

 

EFFECTIVE DATE

 

Upon passage, or, if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act takes effect September 1, 2005.